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Benjamin Yip was an early pioneer Adventist Caribbean minister and church administrator of Chinese descent. During the late 1920s, he was ordained an Adventist minister after many years of very successful work as a colporteur, evangelist, and secretary-treasurer of the South Caribbean Conference in Trinidad. He was among the first Caribbean-born leaders to hold an administrative position in the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Frank Herman Yost was an Adventist minister, historian, seminary professor and Liberty magazine editor.
Opal Hoover Young was an English professor, author, editor of the Andrews University magazine Focus, and the first woman in the Michigan Conference to be ordained an elder.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Women Educators
Sara Mareta Young, a descendant of the 1789 HMS Bounty mutineer Edward (Ned) Young, was one of the first Pitcairn Islanders (if not the first) to travel to other Pacific Islands as a Seventh-day Adventist missionary.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith Women
Sarah Grace Young was among the first Sabbathkeepers and Seventh-day Adventist converts on Pitcairn Island.
Missionaries to India themselves, Alfred and Bertha Youngberg, belonged to a family line of missionaries. The four generations of the Youngberg-Oss family produced 25 missionaries.
Gustavus Benson Youngberg Jr. was a nurse, obstetrician, and gynecologist. He served as a missionary physician to the Far East Division.
Southern Asia-Pacific Division Biography Missionaries Medical Workers
Gustavus Benson Youngberg was a pioneer Adventist missionary among the headhunters on the Tatau River of Sarawak in Borneo—the third-largest island in the world, which is now politically divided among three countries: Indonesia, Brunei, and Malaysia.
Southern Asia-Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Church Administrative Unit
Norma Ione Youngberg was a poet, creative writing teacher, prolific author, and pioneering Adventist missionary in Borneo—the third-largest Island in the world, which is now politically divided among three countries: Indonesia, Brunei, and Malaysia.
Juan B. Yovan was a literature evangelist, preacher, and church leader.
Florante Estrada Yulip was a teacher, minister/evangelist, church planter, and administrator from the Philippines.
Joshua Yun-Foh Chong was an Adventist minister and educator who served in China, Malaysia (Sarawak and Peninsular) and Singapore.
Dmitry Onisimovich Yunak was a prominent Adventist pastor, public figure, and historian of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Vladimir Stepanovich Zaitsev was a veteran pastor of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Soviet Era from 1953 to the 1980s.
Tigran H. Zakarian was an early convert who became a colporteur and itinerant preacher for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Middle East. He was instrumental in leading others to Christ and his end time church for 15 years before circumstances forced him to leave his homeland.
Amos Umaru Zakariya was a church administrator in Nigeria.
Wilton Edward (Bill) Zanotti was a Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) teacher and educational administrator who worked in church schools in Queensland, Western Australia and New Zealand. He spent ten years at the Aboriginal mission school at Mona Mona where he established a choir and brass band, which became widely known and appreciated.
Arthur Guilherme Zehetmeyr was a canvasser and publishing leader in Brazil.
Elizabeth Zeidler was a long-serving secretary in the General Conference Secretariat, working through the transition between the headquarters in Battle Creek, Michigan and the headquarters in Takoma Park, Maryland. She served as secretary to several successive General Conference Secretaries and as the recording secretary to the General Conference Committee (now the General Conference Executive Committee).
Zephaniah Bina was an Adventist teacher, pastor, prayer warrior, and administrator in Tanzania. Zephaniah Bina was born in 1919 at Kibumaye, Tarime District, in the Mara region located around Lake Victoria in Tanzania. Before he became an Adventist, Bina practiced African tradition religion, and later Roman Catholicism. He became an Adventist in 1934.